English @ SUNY Geneseo | Julia Merante | Group Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/juliamerante/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Julia Merante is a member. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 493adfe19ca9ea02dd27c40fadcc2914 Lily Scobbo joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17143/ Sun, 08 Dec 2024 20:35:17 -0500 0 d71f1bb9ccc269bd8d423de91e137ae4 Penelope Greene joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16173/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:45:32 -0500 0 adbb1883a865506310b418505f6c9395 Joe Sharak joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16140/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 20:05:25 -0500 0 372382a2b6e8a8ed601d40f233139ede Brian Malgieri joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16139/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 03:41:27 -0500 0 91cc60033498b1b7971bb4c4c032f957 Diana Morley joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16138/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 22:45:21 -0500 0 d3a4847b635f249f1cc9adb816d0db32 Steve Trail joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16136/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:44:49 -0500 0 179d33e5814cdd3c1c9f05dc08bbe391 Lauren Silverman joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16134/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:08:24 -0500 0 8bee206a4c35ec2e38f55311ea2f9ba3 Ryan Silverstein joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16133/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:04:39 -0500 0 a7d17c0be97619dd49f0900bbfe25e0f Quentin Wall joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16132/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:49:16 -0500 0 3655408f6790cb05491940f178dfd2a4 Olivia Santos joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16125/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:46:10 -0500 0 1d96aa0e2e71488b3412ace61f8be802 Casey Sherman joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16124/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:40:20 -0500 0 79b759beb76455b509a6d22e491bf7d2 Claire Wallace joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16116/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:33:20 -0500 0 5cbc86630d84d00b6c823728e9b66f73 Will Kilada joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16114/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:50:53 -0500 0 147b3f9b7e707f016dec31368b571f31 Amanda Fago joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16095/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 21:09:38 -0500 0 f9efc990502f255e00b923d8f8f45cea Lauren Davies joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16091/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:00:47 -0500 0 7a65817a5dc75d1d831d1ca2416c16db Travis Johnson joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16088/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:02:46 -0500 0 c502caae02d125a260086fb14f11e83a Genevieve Moulton joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16084/ Sun, 06 Nov 2022 19:18:40 -0500 0 dbbcba3bf92e9d51449d4562139f8e85 Shawna Smith joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16077/ Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:51:02 -0500 0 91544acf8ed4a7d1ca0111234e1d8dbd Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Not Poetry....?, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15088/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:08:00 -0500 I am also really bad at writing anything that isn’t poetry. Fun fact, my college essay was a poem! I just took the lines out and made it a paragraph. I will never understand why I got into colleges with that! My […]

]]> 0 08f9a8594807928bc28fbd945715d28a Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Not Poetry....? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15087/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:11:04 -0500 One thing that has me unhappy is that I have already taken two poetry workshops, and therefore need to take a workshop that isn’t poetry. Moving away from what makes me comfortable has always been something I t […]

]]> 0 096ebd0ae3bdacf0cdfaad07b68bbd13 Hannah Fahy wrote a new blog post Underwater in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15067/ Fri, 20 Mar 2020 02:16:40 -0500 It’s spring break, and it’s past my bedtime, but I had to write this. I think my blog posts are getting crazier by the second, but stick with me here. What could I do to make my poetry sound like it’s under […]

]]> 0 d6b57604ca9e2026e3713b14ae8eb1fa Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post If...Write. in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15046/ Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:56:05 -0500 If you’re leaving for spring break, write about going home. If you’re staying, write on the green about the silver wind. If you’re coming back for the rest of the semester, write to tell us about the haunting […]

]]> 0 e70203ad551d9fa767e8c157b651f5f5 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Perspective Writing/Reading in Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15045/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:45:30 -0500 I have no idea if this is anything close to your Great Day presentation, but playing off of perspective, I bet it would be fun to have an item on display – something simple, but hard to recognize; maybe something […]

]]> 0 e134dd1c678efa21d52a34465d4e8c60 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Poetic Obsessions, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15044/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:35:16 -0500 I think it’s a natural artistic tendency to avoid covering the same subject matter once you’ve already addressed it (as is the opposite, only focusing your efforts on one subject matter). It almost feels like we […]

]]> 0 b529419d2561bb3b190b2dcb42e630c1 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15043/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:18:13 -0500 “I have a nephew and I absolutely adore this kid. He’s six years old, about yay high and he loves to play. So one day, Jayden and I are in the front yard and we are having a blast. I needed to go inside for a m […]

]]> 0 0453546f33dc0ee0b8d9c954795f0f2e Kyle Navratil edited the blog post The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15042/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:15:29 -0500 This past Saturday I delivered a TEDx talk here at SUNY Geneseo and I wanted to post the written transcript for those who couldn’t be there. I will only post the first third on here and then leave the rest as a […]

]]> 0 b9a03593aae6d9d35a8bb813f3a834dc Hannah Fahy wrote a new blog post Poetic Obsessions in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15041/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:03:28 -0500 I write a lot more than ever gets shown to anyone. I think that’s how it should be, not everything needs to make it to a final draft, the act of writing itself is good to practice. However, I’ve noticed what my […]

]]> 0 ec7c2f43c07d09eabcb962404f59ae3b Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Zines in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15040/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:26:17 -0500 I’m surprised that in such a savvy course such as this, we’ve somehow totally circumvented the subject of zines. Zines are small, largely individually produced “magazines” (though many, if not most, tend to be […]

]]> 0 418712871de4456b3c1e3b0b25fb792a Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Perspective Writing/Reading in Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15039/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 05:12:54 -0500 So recently I’ve been in the planning stages of my Great Day presentation and in doing so I’ve believe I have found another source for poetry; what I’m speaking of is perspective. Almost every human being has the […]

]]> 0 51e71f39ecb853e56c15df1c14df2c50 Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Source from Written Works in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15038/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:14:17 -0500 I like to think that I have a fairly full and diverse bookshelf, both at college and at home. Some of these titles can easily reflect in my work, some of them can’t. Each has a certain aspect that can be viewed a […]

]]> 0 5f76e2d75314805e356e570927a5d5a6 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila commented on the post, Poets as Cameras, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15037/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 21:21:54 -0500 I read this as I was people watching/doing my homework in the mail room lol. I love the idea of the camera and how a poets embodiment of one can lead to distance. I also struggle with distancing myself from my […]

]]> 0 ca3800dc62dd10eec834e3154df806a4 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Poet Ex Machina in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15036/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:54:01 -0500 I don’t want to compare poets to machines: spewing out verses like the Lamron printer spews out newspapers. I just mean to express that our brains never stop creating. I have a notes app file dedicated to […]

]]> 0 95680e02edfa81b7910030a7012d4666 Hannah Fahy wrote a new blog post Poets as Cameras in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15034/ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:27:31 -0500 My very first class here at Geneseo in fall of 2016 was ENGL 203 Reader & Text: Adaptation & Discipline with Professor Harrison. The class was all about works of literature that are adapted over and over by other […]

]]> 0 0a736e456de718290b1d932617843bfc Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Slang, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15033/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:05:40 -0500 I think this would make such a cool poem! A poem made entirely out of slang terms for sex reminds me of the blonde joke poem we read in class. I hope you choose to write this!

]]> 0 c1dabb154ed1228f6de220a6e4be08c7 Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Repressed memories?, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15032/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:04:42 -0500 I think this is really interesting! I would love to read more on poetry as therapy. I think a lot of poets (especially those who write without the intent of being published) use poetry as a coping mechanism. […]

]]> 0 30d61c136342cbb5f289d75a5b3eb8e5 Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Slang in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15031/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:57:02 -0500 Slang as a concept is fascinating – little verbal workarounds and implied connotations to construe a concept. It is not always used for the best means – how many slang terms were created on sexist, racist, […]

]]> 0 5d5496a4fc8bb5b43880b7cb6adf4699 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Art & Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15030/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:38:49 -0500 I find it so interesting that Gandy Dancer – among other literary magazines, this is not a Gandy exclusive deal – puts submitted images and poems/prose/etc. next to one another with the implication that they go […]

]]> 0 87b6fa5fddc1178bfe180621ac476fa4 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Repressed memories?, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15029/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:34:35 -0500 Psychology major here. Don’t worry – the first (and most valuable) concept you learn in psychology courses is that there are no absolute truths and that invariably what you are learning to be true in one class is […]

]]> 0 bb2d12f7319e8e4d3130f9529e440032 Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Repressed memories? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15028/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 03:43:02 -0500 In my past blog post “Home Depot by Brian Turner,” I talked about poetry being able to draw out repressed memories. After doing some digging, I found that the memory I was describing as repressed could be arg […]

]]> 0 9c8f200126619141f4b68de5275f2314 Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Poetry in Youth, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15027/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:17:46 -0500 Please write this poem!!!!!!! Education major to education major, I need you to write this! I often think about the absolutely ridiculous things my students said, and I taught 7, 8, 10, 11, & 12, so I can’t […]

]]> 0 cf64acebced0c3cca98703c11ff3cdfd Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Thinking Without Words in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15026/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 19:03:17 -0500 Have you ever thought of what it would be like to think
without words? What would it be like to think without pictures, syllogisms,
typeset, linguistic codification in binaries, tertiaries, quaternaries, or […]

]]> 0 70eebce3eff62c26ea9bed31af38dce9 Lyndsay Tudman wrote a new blog post Art & Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15025/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:15:19 -0500 This semester, I am in ENGL 426 with Rachel Hall. Basically, the entire class reads, edits and publishes the SUNY wide literary magazine called Gandy Dancer. For one of our assignments, we had to read the last […]

]]> 0 2bf8b375f9589e450a8b13e0b13987c4 Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Don't make me say it, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15024/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:44:10 -0500 I feel like your poetry could absolutely keep a wall up and remain impersonal, there is no obligation to lay everything bare. But there absolutely is the misconflation between poetry being personal, and poetry […]

]]> 0 871bc9553f88234731e51fc831568e7c Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Poetry in Pictures, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15023/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:07:17 -0500 You may know them, but I wanna point you towards two artists who try a very similar thing to what you describe here.
Evan Cohen (https://wetflakeybark.tumblr.com/) creates one-page graphic panels that have a […]

]]> 0 e3d0e5e843163cf61ef23ddf18d5d21c Katelyn Daniels commented on the post, The Sketchbook Project, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15022/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:29:24 -0500 Jessica, I was so intrigued to read this blog post. I have never heard of anything like this before! What an amazing project and “in the making” basically constantly. It was really nice to see the variety of work […]

]]> 0 91dc4eed924c33b507e4715c9523efb7 Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post "Film is an Empathy Machine, Poetry is a What Machine?" in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15021/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:20:16 -0500 I keep coming back to our in-class exercise prompt Wednesday: “Film is an empathy machine, poetry is a what machine?” I really didn’t grasp it then (“reverse-engineer code,” what?) and I still don’t know, but t […]

]]> 0 c626d749d88479f2cd007469e3ba5fff Katelyn Daniels wrote a new blog post Poetry in Youth in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15020/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:18:10 -0500 This past month, I have attempted to get ahead on assignments & projects in classes, and extra curricula’s. This includes visits to elementary schools in the Rochester area as it is required as an early childhood […]

]]> 0 f76b111711eb9f39a400f0addb4c6e37 Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post The Sketchbook Project in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15018/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:44:39 -0500 There’s a potential source of inspiration that some of you might be interested in checking out. The Brooklyn Art Library serves a very specific function to its local and global community – it is the physical […]

]]> 0 31f3cebcb9f1e96fe1a288731e65dccb Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Poetry in Pictures, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15017/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:03:48 -0500 I think you’d enjoy paging through some zines! I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of those; they’re these small, independently made “magazines” (a lot of them can fit in the palm of your hand, though) that usually […]

]]> 0 7c29846ccf225ebc070de2a9dacac0ad Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Happy Poems Just Don't Happen, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15016/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:52:42 -0500 I guess that depends on what you consider happy! Happy is a wide range of emotions, including (but not limited to):

– bittersweet
– blithe
– playful
– incidental
– right
– celebratory

I think there’s a […]

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